Defining Your Authentication Function; Getting And Checking The Bind Parameters - Netscape DIRECTORY SERVER 6.2 - PLUG-IN Manual

Figure 8-2 How Your Pre-Operation Bind Plug-In Function Can Authenticate LDAP
Clients

Defining Your Authentication Function

The following sections cover guidelines that you can follow when defining your
authentication function:
•

Getting and Checking the Bind Parameters

• Getting the Entry and Checking the Credentials
• What to Do If Authentication Fails
• What to Do If Authentication Succeeds
NOTE Be sure to check this source file for an example of a pre-operation
plug-in function that handles authentication:
<server_root>/plugins/slapd/slapi/examples/testbind.c
Getting and Checking the Bind Parameters
Call the
slapi_pblock_get()
parameters:
•
SLAPI_BIND_TARGET
attempting to authenticate as)
•
SLAPI_BIND_METHOD
such as
LDAP_AUTH_SIMPLE
function to get the values of the following
(a string value specifying the DN that the client is
(an integer value specifying the authentication method,
or
LDAP_AUTH_SASL
Chapter 8
Writing a Pre-Operation Bind Plug-in
)
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